Is there a girl?

I caught this little bit of interest on TV earlier today. A group of Ontarians have created Canada's answer to the G. I. Joe. Three Canadian Forces action figures, army, navy, and airforce. And I don't mean to be discouraging, really I don't, but my first reaction to hearing this was "Is there a girl?"

Yes, I know people are going to roll their eyes and label me some sort of feminazi. I'm really not. My question doesn't come out of some righteous need to shove females into everything under the sun or to prove a point. It comes from...being me, I suppose. it comes from being a girl whose female role models growing up were the Power Rangers. It comes from being a girl who caught ants and spiders in the backyard. it comes from being able to shoot a bow and arrow fairly well.

Yes, i love princesses. I love barbies. I love dressing up. And I love a lot of things that traditionally thought of as guy things too. This is not some rant about principles. Let's move on.

This is just...me being really sad. i understand why there isn't a girl figure. Most of the people in the Canadian Forces are still men. I just hate feeling left out. I hate that there isn't someone for me to sympathize with, to imagine myself in the shoes of. I know other girls are going to feel this way too. I know it won't just be girls, it'll be minorities of all sorts since all three of the figures are very typical white males.

Hopefully, as the Canadian Heroes line expands, we'll start to get more variety and i'll get the girls I want. Till then, I'll probably ignore this line as much as possible because it makes me just a little too sad, sitting in my room.

Anyway, enough about me. How does it make you feel? Especially those female friends of mine in the armed forces but everyone else too. What do you think?